Running the Product

To run WSO2 products, you start the product server at the command line. You can then run the Management Console application to configure and manage the product. This page describes how to run the product in the following sections:

The Management Console uses the default HTTP-NIO transport, which is configured in the catalina-server.xml file in the <ELB_HOME>/repository/conf/tomcat directory. This transport must be properly configured in this file for the Management Console to be accessible.

Starting the server

To start the server, you run the script wso2server.bat (on Windows) or wso2server.sh (on Linux/Solaris) from the bin folder. Alternatively, you can install and run the server as a Windows service.

To start and stop the server in the background mode of Linux, run wso2server.sh start and wso2server.sh stop commands.

Open a command prompt:

On Windows, choose Start -> Run, type cmd at the prompt, and press Enter.
On Linux/Solaris, establish a SSH connection to the server or log in to the text Linux console.

Execute one of the following commands, where <ELB_HOME> is the directory where you installed the product distribution:

On Windows: <ELB_HOME>/bin/wso2server.bat --run
On Linux/Solaris: sh <ELB_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh

For additional options you can use with these startup commands, type -help after the command, such as: sh <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh -help

The operation log appears. When the product server is running, the log displays the message "WSO2 Carbon started in 'n' seconds."

Stopping the server

To stop the server, press Ctrl+C in the command window, or click the Shutdown/Restart link in the navigation pane in the Management Console.